Category

Past Future

• Dec 06 2007
  Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion Car by David Goligorsky
  Aesthetics, Design, Engineering, History of Design, Past Future, Product Design, patents

  Core77 just posted a link to a great collection of information on the Buckminster Fuller-designed Dymaxion car.
  
  
• Oct 30 2007
  Failed Predictions for the Future by David Goligorsky
  Past Future

  Wikipedia has a page that lists many failed predictions for the future. (via BoingBoing) "A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth's atmosphere." -- New York Times, 1936.
  
  
• Sep 24 2007
  1955 Predictions for the Future by David Goligorsky
  Misplaced Thoughts, Past Future, Quotes

  It is possible that telephones will have miniature television tubes, so that the person at the other end can be seen, perhaps holding a diagram that is pertinent to the conversation or showing off a newborn babe for Grandpa's examination, back in Iowa. Mail will probably be dispatched across the country by guided rockets, a civilian application of the guided missile. By this means a letter could span the continent in half an hour. [...] Wireless transmission of power is possible today, but is not economic. Atomic energy may provide cheap enough power to make it feasible. [...] The use of ...
  
  
• Sep 24 2007
  Designing For People by David Goligorsky
  Past Future, Quotes

  Henry Dreyfuss was something of a visionary... The real triumph of the American way of life is that although the work week has steadily shrunk, productivity has steadily risen. In 1800 the average work week was eighty-four hours, a century ago it was seventy hours, in 1925 it was forty-five hours. Today the forty-hour week is almost standard, the two-day week end is almost universal, three-week vacations with pay are more and more the practice and the coffee break has become an institution. Despite all this, average production per man-hour increased forty-eight per cent between 1928 and ...
  
  

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